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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains and illustrates the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future, from machines with the ability of independent thought to cars that drive themselves to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The longest ship ever built, the heaviest digger and the largest aeroplane, the world's first working motorcar, and its most expensive one. What machines like these have in common is that they all say a lot about the inventiveness and imagination of the people who conceived and created them. Some of them are useful, others are just a bit of fun, but the best ones are truly magnificent, and fascinating to discover. Designed to drive faster, fly higher,...
Author
Series
White Space volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @matociquala"--
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
c1934
Physical Desc
xi, 495 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Technics and Civilization gives a history of the development of the machine during the last thousand years. It examines the origins of the machine as they are found in the social order that crystallized in the early Middle Ages, and in the scientific and philosophic world-views that grew up in the seventeenth century.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 576 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages cm
Language
English
Description
Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of...